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By Pascal Chevrier

The use of nuclear power is neither a political nor

an ideological issue; it is the most powerful scien-

tific-economic breakthrough that occurred during

the 20th Century. The scientific and physical eco-

nomic aspects of nuclear power have not been ac-

knowledged by any of Qubecs political leader-

ship. The political parties have shown no under-

standing of these attributes whatsoever. Our con-

cern is that ignorance on this important matter is

not confined to the political class. This is why we

submit the present article to the scrutiny of all our

fellow citizens.

As humanity is confronted with the biggest finan-

cial-economic crisis it has ever experienced and a

set-up for potential world war in the Middle East

cockpit, we citizens must choose to either sink with

this dying system into a new global dark age or af-

fect an evolutionary change that is lawfully crafted

on the anti-entropic behaviour of our universe. The

latter would assure our common survival, but

meanwhile, contradictory decisions are being made

by our political leaders

Case Study: The Shutdown of Gentilly-2

The recent statement by Parti Qubcois (PQ) lead-

ers calling for closing the Gentilly-2 nuclear reactor

comes as no real surprise as it was already a known

intention of the party, specified in their latest elec-

toral platform (1). The official declaration was made

two weeks after the September 4th election of a PQ-

minority government, without a rational explana-

tion of the decision other than the green ideological

fad of so-called renewable energies and some tax

money-saving rhetoric. In fact, the majority (threeout of five) of Quebecs political parties running for

the last provincial elections had already written nu-

clear energy out of Quebecs future. While both theLiberals and the Coalition Avenir Qubec (CAQ)

were advocating the refurbishment of the nuclear

plant; they were doing so for the wrong small-minded reasons. The closing was made official as

of October 3rd by Hydro-Quebecs CEO ThierryVandal and will take effect at the end of 2012. Ob-

viously, distrust and anger has been growing espe-

cially from the families of the 800 specialized em-

ployees that will be losing their jobs due to the

shutting down of the power plant.

With the intention of panicking the public into ac-

quiescing to the shutdown of Gentilly-2, a docu-

mentary was aired on September 17th on Chanel

Tl-Qubec entitled Gentilly or not to be(2). Noth-

ing grandiose has to be said about the documentary,

which began with footage of nuclear bomb explo-

sions, as the intent was clear: who could trust an

energy source of that type? Then paranoia sets in

with a barrage of frightening reports on the dangers

of radiation, possible catastrophes that could hap-

pen in the future, the complications of waste dis-

posal, environmental contamination, stillbirths,

etc

Once upon a time, Quebec could have been a leader

in nuclear technology. Hydro-Qubecs plan in the

1970s was to build about 30 nuclear reactors alongthe St. Lawrence River, an opportunity missed

when the PQ government of the time voted to in-

definitely halt the construction of new nuclear

plants.

Is Quebec Committing Scientific Suicide?

(or why buying gold wont change a thing)

(1) Agir en toute libert, Programme Parti Qubcois, p. 23, (#

5.3 g).

(2) http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/mediacentre/

updates/2012/September-18-2012-Gentilly-or-not-to-be.cfm

to set the record straight the Canadian Nuclear Security Com-

mission (CNSC) wrote the short report on every falsehood in

the documentary.

Instead of putting wind-

mills close to their

plants, the nuclear

industry should fight to

educate people on the

principle of energy fluxdensity.

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Both succumbing to, and encouraging the hysterical

fear promoted by the environmentalist lobby sur-

rounding the dangers of nuclear technology, it was

arranged that dams were to be built in James Bay and

Manicouagan region instead. Quebec then became a

world leader in hydropower systems although the

dream of having a nuclear powered Quebec was

dropped and forgotten.

It is important to note that the arguments forexiting

nuclear, and replacing it with lower grade energy

sources such as wind and solar are founded upon the

unscientific fallacy that energy must only meet house-

hold electricity needs. But nuclear technology isnotonly about providing electricity. It has many other

purposes. Carbon-14 is used to date archaeological

findings; medical isotopes are used for either imaging

and/or therapy. Recall the crisis of shortages which

occurred when Ontarios Chalk River reactor (which

produced more than 50% of the worlds medical iso-tope needs) had to be shutdown for over a year. Nu-clear is a denser form of power that can be used to

desalinate water, to procure new isotopes, and power

heavy industries which could never exist under lower

renewable energy sources.

The Empire: making a bloodless killing

Since the end of World

War II, many organiza-

tions have been founded

by individuals formerly

associated with theeugenics societys lead-

ership, many of themcrown-bearing. They

decided that their Empire

would prevail through

new ways of making

population reduction ac-

ceptable to their dumbeddown subjects. Their

choice of re-introducing

eugenics thinking back into society was wildlife con-

servation or if you prefer, environmentalism. Afteryears of propaganda that has shaped popular opinion

into believing that mankind is the environments topenemy, this ideology has now become a new

Malthusian dogma whose mantra has becomedont feed the poor/ save the environment! The pro-development and anti-war policies of two Kennedy

brothers and Martin Luther King Jr. were sabotaged

and turned into an anti-human religion as the world

economic system was transformed with the 1971 de-

struction of the Bretton Woods System into a clash of

two mutually contradictory polarities. Short-term fi-

nancial profits under a monetarist ideology were set

up on one side and an anti-science population reduc-

tion ideology on the other. These assassinations, of

the political and moral leadership of the 1960s, weremeant to usher in a new paradigm of cultural pessi-

mism.

The Club of Rome and other think tanks have pub-

lished books like The Population Bomb, Global2000 and Limits to Growth to warn of impendingdoom if the worlds population is not culled rapidly.Today, in 2012, Prince Philip, the Queens consort,

and his financiers acolytes still promote a maximumcarrying capacity of the Earth of less then 2 billionpeople. The most important tool this oligarchy has, is

our uneducated fear. This ignorant fear can lead not

only to the denial of the necessary technologies for

third world countries to develop, but also a destruc-

tion of those similar advanced technologies so neces-

sary to our own survival. Since the shift into post-

industrial consumerism that followed the countercul-ture revolt of 1968, western culture has almost en-

tirely lost the idea of producing for the needs of the

future, choosing instead the immoral path to hell

founded on the baby boomer motto of live for to-

day.

The insane fear of radiation

The illustrious physicist Edward Teller used to joke

that a man would get more radiation from sleeping

with two women than living next to a nuclear plant.

Though you may or may not find this image offen-sive, it is still nonetheless true. Radioactivity perme-

ates every inch of our universe. It is in the food we

eat, in the soil we step on, it is emitted from the Sun

that shines upon us and even originates from the cells

in our own body! The doses of radiations we receive

from artificial sources such as nuclear plants- areinfinitesimal in comparison. For example: Every

year, Canadians are exposed on average of about 1.8millisieverts (mSv) from natural background radia-

tion. This means that in one year, residents living in

Trois-Rivires and Bcancour get 900 times more

radiation from natural background radiation than from

the man-made radiation of Gentilly-2 (3).

(3) Ibid.

Martin Luther King and Ro-

bert F. Kennedy represented

a vision of optimism that had

to be destroyed to save the

system of empire.

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Some might ask the question What is the dose of

radiation thats normal for a human being? Thereis no satisfying answer that anyone can give be-

yond a certain minimum and maximum bracket.

Some argue, supporting their statement with LNT

(4), that any exposure to radiation is harmful, re-

gardless of what the doses may be, and therefore

such people will develop a sophistry that will con-

clude that, half the dose of radiation will causehalf the amount of cancers. These are clearlysimplistic views that reflect a profound ignorance

on the part of the interlocutors. Not only is a cer-

tain amount of radiation necessary for life, but low

dose radiation within certain bandwidths has been

proven to both extend longevity and combat can-

cer!

Dont buy gold Increase energy

flux density!

An elementary question that must be asked is:

What gives value to anything? Whether we are

looking at gold, wood or even uranium, from

where and to what enddoes its value arise? Thinkof our old relative, the caveman. What did he

value? What was useful to his survival? Some

tools, yes, but what is the principle permitting for

the power of tool-making? What is behind the

bronze and iron ages,? What made them possible?It is important to get this question right, since

these new tools were more valuable to our ances-

tors and to human civilization than any precious

mineral or metal. What is the underlying principle

that carried out these discoveries? Creativity is our

human gift, and the concepts applied and en-

hanced every time a fundamental discovery is

made is what we call the concept of energy fluxdensity (5) , or otherwise theprinciple of fire devel-

oped at length by Lyndon LaRouche in many of

his economic papers (6) for over 50 years.

Energy flux density is the standard by which en-

ergy production must be studied and must define

which form of energy among a given spectrum of

choices is selected by society. Physical economics,

the modern science founded by Gottfried Leibniz

in the 17th century, was developed around the

concept of steam-powered machines applied to

enhance the work of mankind while alleviating the

need for capital intensive human or animal labour.

The per capita and per square kilometre output of

energy is the valid measure to understand which

energy production will be able to power cities of

two thousand or two million citizens. The readers

should look at a very good study on the subject for

more extended data (7). Using this criteria we must

come to recognize that nuclear fission power is an

unbeatable option in todays world, as it is ordersof magnitude higher in output than wind, solar and

fossil fuel-powered plants. Modern society neces-

sitates a shift towards an atomic renaissance.

(4) The linear no-threshold model (LNT) is a model used in radiation

protection to estimate the long term, biological damage caused by

ionizing radiation. It assumes that this damage is directly proportional

to the dose at all dose levels.

(5) Enqute sur la densit de flux dnergie par Benot Chalifoux,http://www.solidariteetprogres.org/Enquete-sur-la-densite-de-flux-d-

energie_06942

(6) Prometheus And Europe by Lyndon LaRouche: http://

www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_97-01/001_lar_prometheus.html(7) Ibid, Chalifoux.

Radiation is an integral part of life. It is used here to preserve

dental health

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A fuel bundle 500 mm long, 100 mm in diameter

and weighing 22 kg could be carried in an over-

night bag. When put in a CANDU reactor, it can

produce as much energy as burning about 400 tons

of coal or 2000 barrels of oil (8). wind and solarenergy are not calculable under these metrics (9),

but in terms of power potential, are orders of mag-

nitude inferior. Quebecs energy makeup is hydro:94.8 %, fossil fuel: 2.6 %, nuclear: 2.1 %, wind:

0.3 %, biomass/wastes: 0.2 %. That is to say, that

1 nuclear power plant (Gentilly-2) generates al-

most ten times more power then 393 windmills!

How much land(10) is wasted on a technology that

will only fuel a new dark age?

Speeding up the Renaissance

While this article is being written, Japan has an-

nounced that it is not only reopening closed nu-

clear plants (all but three of Japans 54 reactorswere shut down in the wake of the Fukushima

hysteria in 2011), but is also launching the con-

struction of new ones. The nuclear renaissance is

also on its way in Russia, China, Argentina and

India as their governments have declared war on

the short-term, anti-science thinking so popular in

the West. Advances in new technologies such as

thorium-based fission reactors, fourth generation

systems and advances on thermonuclear fusion are

being made by nations which possess an intention

to assure stable sources of energy production, and

durable growth for the coming centuries. Everysociety, in order to prosper, needs to increase its

energy input/output without any absolute upper

limit in order to survive durably. That is not an

ideological statement. It is simply the science ofdevelopment and a fact proven by the experience

of human history.

We, in the West, have to decide if we shall partake

in this Renaissance and help it ignite faster or at-

tempt to throw sand on the embers. Already some

promising projects are underway such as Bel-

giums Myrrha (11) , which could eliminate the

term nuclear waste by transmuting the radioac-tive elements into new non radioactive material.

Canadas CANDU reactor technology is alreadyfound in 6 other countries around the world. Can-

ada was among the first to advance the science of

the atom, and we need to save this legacy. The

new isotope economy lies before us.

Any questions? Lets do it !

Useful links

The Beauty of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle :www.larouchepac.com/node/14721

Fusion Torch Can Create New Raw Materi-

als : www.larouchepac.com/node/14726

We Need to Expand MedicalIsotope Produc-tion! : www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/

Articles_2010/Winter_2009/Beauregard_Interview.pdf

(8) www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/nuclear-power

-plants

(9) Ibid, Chalifoux.

(10) According to General Electrics specifications, a 1,5 Mw

windmill to achieve maximum output needs 81235 m2

(11) K. Vereycken : Le projet Myrrha : Lavenir de lhumanit

passe par la transmutation des dchets nuclaires:

www.solidariteetprogres.org/spip.php?

page=forum&id_article=5909&id_forum=2935

Belgiums Myrrha reactor is a step towards reducing nuclear

wastes to none. Instead of shutting down nuclear facilities, our

nation should develop these technological skills and more.